Hi George, That was an informative mail. Thanks. >Open MPI is MPI 2 compliant, therefore it support dynamic processes. >The is a FAQ on the web site on how to do it.
Does it also mean that openMPI is tolearnt to process or node failures? Then in such a case what is the solution?? Restart the job ?? Thanks, Imran George Bosilca <bosi...@cs.utk.edu> wrote: On Sep 15, 2006, at 10:36 AM, imran shaik wrote: > Can you elaborate on this.? > I have few doubts as well: > 1) OpenMPI runtime supports SGE?? Does it uses SGE instead of MPI > runtime when it finds SGE running?? It's a difficult question if you expect an answer describing the deep internals of the Open MPI implementation. Let's say from a high level point of view that the MPI runtime detect SGE and use it in order to start the MPI job. > 2) Is it possible to check point and run MPI jobs? Not with the released version. It's still work in progress. Eventually it will be one of the features of Open MPI but not before SC2006. > 3) Is it possible to add and remove processes dynamically from the > MPI communicator? Open MPI is MPI 2 compliant, therefore it support dynamic processes. The is a FAQ on the web site on how to do it. > 5) When do we actually need many different communicators? It depend on what you plan to do. Usually, from the programmer point of view using multiple communicators make the code more readable as they allow you to have a logic view of the messages in transit. But it is not a requirement. One can write a million lines of code MPI application and only use the MPI_COMM_WORLD. > 4) Is MPI only suitable for low latency communication in a cluster > environment? MPI was designed as a programming paradigm. It allow expressing parallel algorithms based on communications between peers. These communications can be point-to-point or collectives. The goal is wider than just low latency communications, as the standard allow you [as an example] to describe the memory layout of the data that get involved in the communication. The MPI forum have the full documentation about all the features of the MPI 2 standard. george. > > > > > > Ralph H Castain wrote: I can't speak to the Perl > bindings, but Open MPI's runtime already supports > SGE, so all you have to do is "mpirun" like usual and we take care > of the > rest. You may have to check your version of Open MPI as this > capability was > added in the more recent releases. > > Ralph > > > On 9/13/06 8:52 AM, "Renato Golin" wrote: > > > On 9/13/06, imran shaik wrote: > >> I need to run parallel jobs on a cluster typically of size 600 > nodes and > >> running SGE, but the programmers are good at perl but not C or C+ > +. So i > >> thought of MPI, but i dont know whether it has perl support? > > > > Hi Imran, > > > > SGE will dispatch process among the nodes of your cluster but it > does > > not support interprocess communication, which MPI does. If your > > problem is easily splittable (like parse a large apache log, read a > > large xml list of things) you might be able to split the data and > > spawn as many process as you can. > > > > I do it using LSF (another dispatcher) and a Makefile that controls > > the dependencies and spawn the processes (using make's -j flag) > and it > > works quite well. But if your job need the communication (like > > processing big matrices, collecting and distributing data among > > processes etc) you'll need an interprocess communication and that's > > what MPI is best at. > > > > In a nutshell, you'll need the runtime environment to run MPI > programs > > as well as you need SGE's runtime environments on every node to > > dispatch jobs and collect information. > > > > About MPI bindings for Perl, there's this module: > > http://search.cpan.org/~josh/Parallel-MPI-0.03/MPI.pm > > > > but it's far too young to be trustworthy, IMHO, and you'll probably > > need the MPI runtime on all nodes as well... > > > > cheers, > > --renato > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. > Great rates starting at 1ยข/min. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business.
